Software Engineer

About the Role

At Ceryneian, we’re building a next-generation, research-driven algorithmic trading platform aimed at democratizing access to hedge fund-grade financial analytics. Headquartered in California, Ceryneian is a fintech innovation company dedicated to empowering traders with sophisticated yet accessible tools for quantitative research, strategy development, and execution.

Our flagship platform is currently under development. As a Backend Engineer, you will play a foundational role in designing and building the core trading engine and research infrastructure from the ground up. Your work will focus on developing performance-critical components that power backtesting, real-time strategy execution, and seamless integration with brokers and data providers. You’ll be responsible for bridging core engine logic with Python-based strategy interfaces, supporting a modular system architecture for isolated and scalable strategy execution, and building robust abstractions for data handling and API interactions. This role is central to delivering the reliability, flexibility, and performance that our users will rely on in fast-moving financial markets.

We are a remote-first team and are open to hiring exceptional candidates globally.

Core Tasks

·      Build and maintain the trading engine core for execution, backtesting, and event logging.

·      Develop isolated strategy execution runners to support multi-user, multi-strategy environments.

·      Implement abstraction layers for brokers and market data feeds to offer a unified API experience.

·      Bridge the core engine language with Python strategies using gRPC, ZeroMQ, or similar interop technologies.

·      Implement logic to parse and execute JSON-based strategy DSL from the strategy builder.

·      Design compute-optimized components for multi-asset workflows and scalable backtesting.

·      Capture real-time state, performance metrics, and slippage for both live and simulated runs.

·      Collaborate with infrastructure engineers to support high-availability deployments.

Top Technical Competencies

·      Proficiency in distributed systems, concurrency, and system design.

·      Strong backend/server-side development skills using C++, Rust, C#, Erlang, or Python.

·      Deep understanding of data structures and algorithms with a focus on low-latency performance.

·      Experience with event-driven and messaging-based architectures (e.g., ZeroMQ, Redis Streams).

·      Familiarity with Linux-based environments and system-level performance tuning.

Bonus Competencies

·      Understanding of financial markets, asset classes, and algorithmic trading strategies.

·      3–5 years of prior Backend experience.

·      Hands-on experience with backtesting frameworks or financial market simulators.

·      Experience with sandboxed execution environments or paper trading platforms.

·      Advanced knowledge of multithreading, memory optimization, or compiler construction.

·      Educational background from Tier-I or Tier-II institutions with strong computer science fundamentals, a passion for scalable system design, and a drive to build cutting-edge fintech infrastructure.

What We Offer

·      Opportunity to shape the backend architecture of a next-gen fintech startup.

·      A collaborative, technically driven culture.

·      Competitive compensation with performance-based bonuses.

·      Flexible working hours and a remote-friendly environment for candidates across the globe.

·      Exposure to financial modeling, trading infrastructure, and real-time applications.

·      Collaboration with a world-class team from Pomona, UCLA, Harvey Mudd, and Claremont McKenna.

Ideal Candidate

You’re a backend-first thinker who’s obsessed with reliability, latency, and architectural flexibility. You enjoy building scalable systems that transform complex strategy logic into high-performance, real-time trading actions. You think in microseconds, architect for fault tolerance, and build APIs designed for developer extensibility.

We are looking for Flutter Developers responsible for developing cross-platform mobile

applications.

Work Details:

● Building modern and cross platform mobile applications using Flutter.

● Collaborating with the Planning and Design teams to bring ideas to life.

● Performing app profiling and improving performance.

● Improving code quality through code reviews.

● Developing new features, maintaining code, and fixing/debugging issues.

You need to have:

● One or more published Flutter apps on the App Store / Play Store.

● Good understanding of Flutter and Dart.

● Beginner to intermediate level knowledge of Java, Kotlin or Swift.

● Good understanding of code versioning tools such as Git etc.

● Willingness to learn about new technologies and trends in mobile.

● Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications.

● Working knowledge of Reactive programming is a plus.

● Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging

technologies.

● Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent professional

experience.

● Experience working with agile teams and making rapid decisions in a dynamic and

disruptive environment.

● Strong communication skills.

Benefits:

● Working with the latest technologies in an early-stage product startup, with plenty of

opportunities to learn

● You will work directly under the mentorship of other senior designers/developers and the

startup's founders.

• Design, develop, implement, and maintain java application phases, code, and software.
• Conduct software analysis, programming, testing, and debugging, as well as recommending changes to improve the established processes.
• Transform requirements into stipulations and identify production and non-production application issues
• Competence and comfort using multiple frameworks (e.g. Spark, Storm, Hadoop, Angular 2/4/5, Spring Boot)
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to identify errors and make adjustments in a testing environment.

We are looking for a Backend Engineer at Prescribe You will be responsible for architecting and developing backend for the features being added in the mobile app. You will be joining a talented, collaborative team that is very passionate about solving this massive problem.

Location:

Work from Home

About Prescribe:

Prescribe (YC W21) is one of India's fastest-growing startups in the Healthcare sector, founded by IIT Madras alumni. We are building a D2C brand GetYara in the natural healthcare space.

Requirements and Responsibilities:

Below is a list of several skills required to deliver on responsibilities for this role:

• Comfortable with AWS infrastructure.
• Sound knowledge in JS ES6.
• Great at problem-solving
• Experience with Amplify and Cloud formation is a plus.
• Bonus: Graphql, Elastic Search, SQL

Benefits

• Work flexibility
• Medical insurance
• Work from Home
• Stock Options based on performance

If you always thought of yourself as entrepreneurial, customer-obsessed, results-oriented, strategic yet execution-focused, hungry and passionate about technology, we have a dream opportunity to back yourself up.

Experience with Hibernate and Spring.

•   Experience with Spring-boot, spring MVC
• Experience with all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle, including system analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging and documentation
• Teamwork & collaboration skills to work across organizations
• Problem solving skills to develop quick yet sound solutions to resolve complex issues
• Programming Language(s): Java, J2EE, JSON, HTML, DHTML, HTML 5, XML, EXTJS.
• Experience with XML/HTTP and Web Services
• Experience with HTML, JSP, CSS, JQuery / Ajax / JSON,
•     Experience /Knowledge of Angular, React.
• Experience building J2EE based Web Applications
• Experience with MySql.

Your Day-to-Day Tasks Include: 

Works in requirements like Engineering, Design, Development, and Deployment. All the tasks involves working with Java, SQL Server and Couchbase. 

Build and monitor data pipelines that serve 100+ websites, 150M+ unique impressions daily. Write code that can handle 4x more scale than the given requirement. 

Maintain uptime of multiple distributed web applications. 

Build data pipelines to pull data from upstream partners like Google. 

You Should Have: 

Minimum 3 years of experience with Java. 

Minimum 2 year of experience with any SQL database (MySql, MSSql, Oracle, DB2, Sybase). Minimum 3 years of experience with web development. 

Experience with any NoSql database (MongoDb, Couchbase, CouchDb, DynamoDb). Experience of designing/implementing/maintaining scalable systems. 

Experience with any cloud platform (AWS/Azure/GCP). 

Good To Have: 

Experience with BI and data reporting. 

Experience with Elastic search. 

Understanding of data warehousing. 

Experience in Node.js.